1955 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1955 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1955 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by fourth-year head coach Jordan Olivar, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 7–2 record.[1][2]

1955 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
1955 record7–2
Head coachJordan Olivar (4th season)
Home stadiumYale Bowl
1955 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Drexel      8 0 0
Carnegie Tech      5 1 1
Princeton      7 2 0
Yale      7 2 0
Tufts      5 2 0
Boston College      5 2 1
No. 20 Army      6 3 0
Colgate      6 3 0
No. 11 Pittsburgh      7 4 0
Holy Cross      6 4 0
Syracuse      5 3 0
Cornell      5 4 0
Penn State      5 4 0
Buffalo      4 4 1
Harvard      3 4 1
Dartmouth      3 6 0
Boston University      2 6 0
Franklin & Marshall      2 6 0
Brown      2 7 0
Columbia      1 8 0
Villanova      1 9 0
Temple      0 8 0
Penn      0 9 0
Rankings from AP Poll

This would be Yale's final year as a football independent, as the Ivy League, which Yale had helped co-found in 1954, began football competition in 1956. Six of the nine opponents on the Bulldogs' 1955 schedule were Ivy League members (with Penn the only Ivy not scheduled); for decades, (future) Ivy members had comprised a large portion of Yale's opponents.

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 24ConnecticutW 14–0
October 1Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 27–2022,000[3]
October 8Columbia
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 46–1415,000[4]
October 15Cornell
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 34–615,000[5]
October 22ColgateNo. 19
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–7
October 29Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 20–032,000[6]
November 5No. 19 Army
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 14–12
November 12at PrincetonL 0–1346,000[7]
November 19Harvard
W 21–756,000[8]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
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References

  1. "1955 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
  2. "Yale Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
  3. Nichols, Joseph C. (October 2, 1955). "Elis' 3-Touchdown Rally Sets Back Brown, 27-20". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  4. Sheehan, Joseph M. (October 9, 1955). "Yale Crushes Columbia, 46-14; M'Gill Is Eli Ace". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  5. Danzig, Allison (October 16, 1955). "Elis Trip Cornell; Ward's 3 Scores Pace 34-6 Victory in Yale Bid for Ivy Title". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  6. Effrat, Louis (October 30, 1955). "Elis Triumph, 20-0, on 2d-Half Drive". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  7. Danzig, Allison (November 13, 1955). "Princeton Stops Yale, 13-0; Flippin Tiger Ace". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  8. Danzig, Allison (November 20, 1955). "Yale Defeats Harvard, 21-7; Elis Seize Breaks". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
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